1 Jude, servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to the called who have been sanctified by God the Father and have been preserved by Jesus Christ.
2 May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
3 Beloved, I was the process of promptly writing to you about our common salvation, when I had to write to you and exhort you that you must passionately defend the faith which was only for all [time] committed to the saints.
4 For certain people slipped in unnoticed who were written about beforehand for this condemnation, ungodly people, turning the grace of our God into a lack of moral restraint and rejecting the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Former Judgment against False Teachers
5 Therefore I will quietly remind you, though you knew this at one time, how the Lord, after saving the people from the land of Egypt, destroyed those who didn't believe.
6 The angels also who did not keep their original place but left their own residence, he has kept in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
7 Likewise, Sodom, Gomorrah, and the cities near them, which were similar, having given themselves totally to fornication and going after strange flesh serve as an example of the vengeance of eternal fire.
Characteristics of False Teachers
8 Similarly, these who dream visions defile the flesh [of their body], despise authority, and speak evil of dignities.
9 Yet when Michael, the archangel, in his confrontation with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not dare inflict a insulting accusation, but said, "The Lord rebuke you."
10 But these insult those things that they don't know anything about. Like wild animals, they are ruined by the very things they know by instinct.
11 Woe to them! For they followed the way of Cain, ran greedily after the error of Balaam, and were destroyed in the wicked challenge of Korah.
12 These are hidden dangers in your agape meal, when they feast with you, stuffing themselves fearlessly; they are waterless clouds blown around by winds and trees without leaves and without fruit, twice dead; pulled out by the roots.
13 These are wild sea waves foaming from their own shame, drifting stars to whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.
Coming Judgment against False Teachers
14 Even Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these saying, "Look, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints
15 to carry out judgment on all and to prove to all the ungodly among them that all their wicked deeds which they have wickedly done are wrong as well as all their terrible words which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are grumblers, malcontents, following after their own lusts. Their mouth spews out a lot of exaggeration, courting favor for their own advantage.
Defending against False Teachers
17 But beloved, remember the words which the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ spoke,
18 how they told you that there will be scoffers in the last time who would follow their own ungodly lusts.
19 These are those who split up groups, sensual, not having the Spirit.
20 But you, beloved, keep building up your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. [Romans. 8.26]
21 Keep yourselves in God's love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ [that brings] eternal life.
22 Using discernment, have compassion on some.
23 With fear save others, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the clothes made filthy by the flesh.
24 Now to him who is able to protect you from falling and to present [you] without blame before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.
25 To the only wise God our Savior, [be] glory, majesty, supremacy, and complete authority, both now and forever. Amen